Am going to start my essay and submit on this wiki so figured i will just start working my way through and put it at the bottom!
Week four already :s
Thoughts so far on stage design for Emporer J
Main symbolic item will be Tomtom drums, want to focus on the African American history. Vairying sized Tomtoms will be spaced out around the stage ( can play with positions of lights to create shadows etc Later on ) when in the palace scrim will be in, so that the tomtoms ( trees/forrest) can be lit and seen behind. Tomtoms which will fall in front of the scrim will Have white And gold material drapped over them to immitate pillars in a palace.
WEEK ONE FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
found an interesting article which goes through the Elements of fuctional design - all of which i feel can be related to some extent to both graphic and theatre design. 7 elements 1. Consider the products goal 2. Consider who will be using it 3. Consider what your audience intends to do with it 4. Is it clear how to use it 5. How does your user know its working 6. it is engaging 7.How does it handle mistakes
After reading numerous other articles this definition of functional design this came up the most times " The products functionality is taken into account when the product is imagines and built"
Arts and Craft Movement (1860-1910)
The arts and craft movement initially started in Egland but moved to the United States and became known as Mission style. This style challenged the Victorian style and aesthetic ideas were borrowed from Medieval European and Islamic sources. The form of this style typically consisted of rectilinear and angular with stylized decoritive motifs linking to medieval and islamic design.
Art Nouveau
This style ran co-currently with the arts and craft movement although was not concerned with social reform movement but instead addressed the clutter of mid 19th century European taste. It originated in Beligum and France. This style featured curved lines, asymmetrical arrangement of forms and patterns. The below image produced by Aubrey Beardsley is titled 'How Queen Guenever made her a nun'. http://www.glyphs.com/art/beardsley/guenev-l.gifI know the work
This image shows the curved lines, asymmetry and represents the cluttered aspect this style with the busy background.
Vienna secession
Founded April 1897
Artsist like Klimt
Huge image...but I know the work...
Cubist - Stage deign focusing on this art movement
Started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
Flatterebed 2 dimensional appearene. Featured geometric angles and lines, with a neutral colour pallette. Multiple POVs
Futurist
1909- late1920's
inspired by post impressionism
predecessor of animation and was influenced by technology. the belief in the future of mechanics and speed
examples?
Surrealist
Influenced by Karl Marx Really...Freud, founded in Paris 1924 and was deemed the most influential movement in the twentith century.
Sigmund Freud was an influence of the movement as was his belief that the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination.
Two children are threated by a nightingale (1924) by Max Ernst
Dadaist 1916-1923
Literary and artistic movement in Europe during the first world war.
'Shock art' - the only rule was to never follow any known rules.
Week four already :s
Thoughts so far on stage design for Emporer J
Main symbolic item will be Tomtom drums, want to focus on the African American history. Vairying sized Tomtoms will be spaced out around the stage ( can play with positions of lights to create shadows etc Later on ) when in the palace scrim will be in, so that the tomtoms ( trees/forrest) can be lit and seen behind. Tomtoms which will fall in front of the scrim will Have white And gold material drapped over them to immitate pillars in a palace.
WEEK ONE FUNCTIONAL DESIGN
found an interesting article which goes through the Elements of fuctional design - all of which i feel can be related to some extent to both graphic and theatre design.
7 elements
1. Consider the products goal
2. Consider who will be using it
3. Consider what your audience intends to do with it
4. Is it clear how to use it
5. How does your user know its working
6. it is engaging
7.How does it handle mistakes
Full article
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/05/7-essential-guidelines-for-functional-design/
After reading numerous other articles this definition of functional design this came up the most times " The products functionality is taken into account when the product is imagines and built"
Example of functional design
Please click link photo wouldnt upload!
Both trendy and practical everything you want in a chair....or two
http://www.trendspotting.com.au/uploads/Image/Design-trend-functional-design-twin-chair.jpg
Fabulous design...I've sent the pic to my son, who is studying design in Melbourne...thanks!!
Like the idea of not using actual tree for forrest , thinking about using tom tom drums as trees to create the forrest ( http://www.google.com.au/search?q=african+american+art&hl=en&client=chrome-mobile&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=G4EtUYnJIcWXiAfO9YGAAg&ved=0CFUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=752#biv=i%7C67%3Bd%7CmHGvgcTOs35BQM%3A)
This is exactly what your journal should be...don't be afraid to cite more examples. Well done.
ESSAY - question one
Victorian art Example
http://www.avictorian.com/art/Alma-Tadema%20Sir%20Lawrence%20Unconscious%20Rivals.%201893.jpg
Victorian art period was the time which queen Elizabeth ruled. (1837-1901) Queen Victoria!
Victorian art has vibrant colours and symbolised the great expansion England experienced under Queen Victoria.
Arts and Craft Movement (1860-1910)
The arts and craft movement initially started in Egland but moved to the United States and became known as Mission style. This style challenged the Victorian style and aesthetic ideas were borrowed from Medieval European and Islamic sources. The form of this style typically consisted of rectilinear and angular with stylized decoritive motifs linking to medieval and islamic design.
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/decart/artcraft/craft.gif
Art Nouveau
This style ran co-currently with the arts and craft movement although was not concerned with social reform movement but instead addressed the clutter of mid 19th century European taste. It originated in Beligum and France. This style featured curved lines, asymmetrical arrangement of forms and patterns. The below image produced by Aubrey Beardsley is titled 'How Queen Guenever made her a nun'.
http://www.glyphs.com/art/beardsley/guenev-l.gif I know the work
This image shows the curved lines, asymmetry and represents the cluttered aspect this style with the busy background.
Vienna secession
Founded April 1897
Artsist like Klimt
Huge image...but I know the work...
Cubist - Stage deign focusing on this art movement
Started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
Flatterebed 2 dimensional appearene. Featured geometric angles and lines, with a neutral colour pallette. Multiple POVs
Nude desending a staircase
http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/nudedescendingastai
Futurist
1909- late1920's
inspired by post impressionism
predecessor of animation and was influenced by technology. the belief in the future of mechanics and speed
examples?
Surrealist
Influenced by Karl Marx Really...Freud, founded in Paris 1924 and was deemed the most influential movement in the twentith century.
Sigmund Freud was an influence of the movement as was his belief that the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination.
Two children are threated by a nightingale (1924) by Max Ernst
http://www.theartstory.org/images20/pnt/pnt_surrealism_1.jpg
Dadaist 1916-1923
Literary and artistic movement in Europe during the first world war.
'Shock art' - the only rule was to never follow any known rules.
Untitled, Mask, portrait of Tzara 1919
http://0.tqn.com/d/arthistory/1/7/v/N/dada_zurich_03.jpg
De Stijl 1917-1931
Founded in the Netherlands; influenced by Cubist form and geometric shapes. Perfect straight line was a major part.
Red and blue chair by Gerrit Rietveld 1917
Art Deco France 1920's
Emphasises geometric forms such as spheres, polygons, rectangles and zigzags.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Lempicka_musician.jpg
The Musician by Tamara De Lempicka, 1929
Bauhaus
Functionalism
the potential for good work...that suddenly stopped...?